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Love Notes 4: What He Says

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Joseph & I on a date, about 4 years ago.
Joseph was a 1st year law student & I had just had Mali.

Part 4 of the series.

My husband, Joseph is training to be a JAG officer for the U.S. Air Force. His training takes him away from us late August to just before Christmas. This is another installment of our correspondence.

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I recieved a snail mail letter from Joseph last week. Here are few snippets.

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Darling,

I miss you a lot , but I’m comforted by semi-frequent reminders that this is right, on a lot of levels.

I’m proud to be here. Proud of what I am doing. I’m working hard, learning, trying to devote myself & be a leader. I am an officer, soon to be a Captain, & plenty of people will react to that, respect it.

There is a lot of sacrifice in what we do,...

Retail Therapy

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I don’t like shopping.

Unless, of course, it’s Target, & I happen to have lots of money to burn (which is um, never).

The one caveat to this is thrift store shopping. I don’t go often because I can’t stand having cheap, extra junk in my house. But, oh how I love a good deal. On things that I will actually use.

In this little community I grew up in & now am currently stationed for the next 2.5 months, there’s very little by way of any shopping. We do have a JCPenney’s & a Wal-mart. And, a Goodwill. We’ve been living here for over almost 4 months & today was my first day entering it’s doors.

{Here’s me rationalizing.} Read the full post